Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-11

him 8 chance to go over and make dis
coveries in that blessed country?
hope some day, by the grace of God
to go over and see for myself, but moi
now. No well man, no prospered man
think, wants to 60 now. But the time
Will come, l think, when l shall go over
l want to see what they do there, and
want to see how they do it. do not
want to be looking through the gates sJsr
forever. l want them to swing wide
open. There are ten thousand things
want explained-about you, about myself,
about the government of this world, about
| God, about everything. We start in q
plain path of what We know, and in a
minute come up against high wall OF
Whist we don't know. l wonder how it
looks over there. Somebody tells me il
is like paved city-paved with gold;
snd another man tells me 1t is like q
fountain, and it is like tree, and it is
ike triumphal procession; and the next
man l meet tells me it is al fgurative.
really want to know, after the body is
Tesurrected, Whist they wear and what
they eat: and | have an unreasonable
curiosity to know
WHAT IT Is,
and how il Is, and where it is. Columbus
risked his life to ind this continent, and
shall we shudder to 60 out on voyage
of discovery which shall reveal vaster
and more brilliant country? John Frank
lin risked his life to find passage be-
tween icebergs, and shall we dread to
find @ passage to eternal summer ? Men
in Switzerland travel up the heights of
nth a1NanufnCL-
guides, and rockets, and ropes, and,
getting half way up, stumble and fail
down in q horrible massacre. They just
want to say they had been on the tops of
those high peaks. And shall we fear to
90 out fOF the ascent of the eternal hills
which start 1000 miles beyond where
stop the highest peaks Of the Alps, and
when in that ascent there IS
no peril A man doomed to
die stepped on the scafold, and
said in Joy "Now, in ten minutes will
know the great secret" One minute after
the vital functions ceased, the little child
that died last night in Montague street
knew more than Jonathan Edwards, or
St. Paul himself, before he died. Friends,
the exit from this world, or death, if you
please to call it, to the Christian is glo-
rious explanation. 1t is demonstration.
1t is illumination. II IS sunburst. 1t is
the opening of all the windows. 1t is
shutting up the catechism OF doubt, and
the unrolling of al the scrolls of posi-
tive and accurate information. Instead
of standing at the foot of the ladder and
looking up, il is standing at the top of
the ladder and looking down. 1t is the
last mystery taken out Of botany, and
geology, and astronomy, and theology
Oh, Will it not be grand to have all ques-
tons answered? The perpetually re-
curing Interrogation point changed for
the mark Of exclamation.
ALL RIDDLES SOLVED.
Who will fear to 60 out on that disCov'
cry, when ali the questions are to be de-
cided which we have beeen discussing all
our lives? Who shall not clap his hands
in the anticipation of that blessed coun-
try, if it be no better than through holy
curiosity, crying: "The time Of my de-
psrture IS at hand!"
remark, again, we ought to have the
Joy Of the text, because, leaving this
world, we move into the best society of
the universe. You see great crowd Of
people in some street, and you say:
"Who IS passing there? What
general, Whst prince is going
10 be there" Wei, l see
great throDg in heaven. l say: "Who Is
the focus of all that admiration? Who is
the center of that glittering company"
1t is Jesus, the champion of all worlds,
the fevorite Of all ages. Do you know
what is the first question the
soul will ask when it comes
through the gate of heaven?
I think the first question will be: "Where
is Jesus, the Savior, that pardoned my
sin; that carried my sorrows; that fought
nv battles; that wen my victories?n o.
radiant One! how l would like TO see
Thee Thou Of the manager, but without
its humiliation; Thou of the cross, but
without its panes; Thou Of the grave,
but without its darkness.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in heaven Just as brother
talks With brother. Now, what viii
you ask Him first? l DO not know.
can think what | would esk Paul first, if
saw MIN II heaven. think l would
like 70 hear him describe the storm that
came upon the ship when there were 275
souls on the vessel, Paul being the only
man on board cool enough to describe
lie storm. There is q fascination about q
ship ard the sea that shall never get
over, and think l would like to hear him
ak about that first. But when l meet
ny Lord Jesus Christ, of what shall
lrst delight to hear Him speak? Now l
hink what il is. I snail first want 10
lear the tragedy of
HIS LAST HOURS;
md when Luke's account Of the cruel !
lxion, and Marks account Of the cruel !
ixion, and Johns account of the cruel |
ixion will be nothing, while from the |
living lips OF Christ the story shall be
old OF the gloom that fell, and the devils |
hat arose, and the fact that upon his en-
lurance depended the rescue of q race; |
md there was darkness in the SKY, and |
here was darkness in the soul, and the |
Jain became more sharp, and the bur
tens became more heavy, until the mob |
began to swim away from the dying Wis
On of Christ, and the Cursing OF the mob |
anne to his esr more family, and his
lands were fastened to the horizontal
,iece Of the cross, and his feet
gere fastened to the perpendicu-
ar piece of the cross, and his head
eli forward in q swoon as he uttered the
asst moan and cried: at is finished" All
.esyen will stop to listen until the story
: done, and every harp will be put down,
nd every lip closed, and all eyes fixed
lpon the divine narrator, until the story
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